Litti-Chokha Recipe: Here’s How You Can Prepare This Scrumptious Bihari Delicacy At Home

Ingredients

• 3- 4 cups of whole wheat flour
• 2 large tablespoons pure ghee
• ¼ teaspoon of baking soda
• 2 cups of gram flour (sattu)
• 2 tablespoons of mustard oil
• 1 inch grated ginger
• 2-3 finely chopped green chillies
• 3-4 finely chopped garlic
• ½ cup of finely chopped coriander leaves
• 1 tablespoon of pickle masala
• 1-2 tablespoons of lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon of red chilli powder
• salt to taste
• 1 large eggplant
• 2 tomatoes
• 1 finely chopped onion.

Step

1. Step 1:

   Take a mixing bowl and add whole wheat flour, salt, ghee and cooking soda. Knead them all together in a soft dough.

2. Step 2:

   Cover the dough with a cotton cloth and keep it aside for around 20-30 minutes.

3. Step 3:

   Start working on your filling. In a bowl add gram flour (sattu), ½ tablespoon mustard oil, grated ginger, green chillies, coriander leaves, pickle masala, lemon juice, red chilli powder, and salt. Mix them all together.

4. Step 4:

   Keep the mixture aside, and start working on your chokha. Pre roast eggplant, and tomatoes over direct flame until nicely charred.

5. Step 5:

   Once done, keep them in cold water to peel of the skin easily.

6. Step 6:

   Mash your veggies nicely in a bowl. Add green chilli, garlic, ginger, onion, salt and mustard oil. Mix everything nicely and keep aside.

7. Step 7:

   Now start assembling litti. Take a lemon-sized dough and roll it to make a small puri.

8. Step 8:

   Keep 1 ½ tablespoon of filling in the centre of the dough and bring the ends together and seal it well.

9. Step 9:

   Prepare all the other littis in the same manner. Once done, keep them covered with a cloth.

10. Step 10:

    Pre heat your grill or oven to 180 degrees C. Start baking your littis in the batch of 2-3 until browned from the top.

11. Step 11:

    Keep flipping your littis upside down while cooking.

12. Step 12:

    Once done, dip the littis in pure ghee. Serve with chokha, green chutney, onions and pickle.